Summary

When you choose to install and run the Apache web server, you have selected the most popular web server in the world. Apache is robust, highly configurable and, because it's Open Source and evolves so quickly, it is also one of the most mature and secure web servers available. You can run Apache to serve a single site or to serve thousands of virtual hosts, all from a single server. Apache works seamlessly with modern dynamic content tools such as PHP/Python and LAMP, and its open-ended nature allows it to be easily tweaked to provide maximum performance for your environment. If you have specific web server capacity requirements, Apache comes with included tools both for stress testing the system as a whole and for monitoring the innards of the daemon itself. Should you run into a problem with your Apache installation, the source of the trouble is usually fairly simple to locate or is spelled out clearly in the log files. In addition, the Apache administrative community has shared a number of helpful hints on websites and in e-mail archives, so you can find an answer quickly and get your sites back online in short order.